Remember, Remember the 4th of September

Mark Honeychurch - 1 September 2025

Just over a week ago we hosted two segments of the second annual Global Skeptics in the Pub Online - an event organised by Californian skeptics to coincide with their annual conference. It was a fun event again, with some really interesting perspectives, and it’s always nice to hear what other skeptical groups are up to.

For us, we had a great time talking to Janyce Boynton last week on our podcast about all things Facilitated Communication - I’d highly recommend giving it a listen, as Janyce is a font of knowledge on this topic. And speaking of Janyce, she’s allowed us to print some of her writing on FC in this newsletter, so I’ve chosen a two part piece on how FC has changed over the years - part two will be published in a couple of weeks.

We also have a couple of pieces related to September 4th - Lucy has written to us asking for us to let you all know about a talk in Christchurch on the 4th, and I’ve written an article about a computer game that is coming out on September 4th.

Bronwyn has written two articles this week - one with updates to some of her previous articles, and another looking at the last three episodes of Season 1 of The Telepathy Tapes. Katrina has written about numeracy, and how poor numeracy can have adverse health effects. And Patrick has been to the Ora Taiao Annual Meeting, and has reported back on what was discussed at the various talks and presentations.